Friday, September 28, 2007

As the 2007 season started, our biggest single month in terms of unique visitors here at the MZone was 170,000+ last November.

Not anymore.

Yesterday, we passed 200,000 for the month of September, bringing us to well over 2.3 million unique visitors in the nearly two years we've been hanging out here in cyberspace.

Oh, sure, 2.2 million of those are Buckeye fans coming to threadjack posts because they seemingly can't understand how a blog called THE M ZONE can be so biased against Tosu. Even still, that's a hell of a lot of people who stop by to read what I've been writing in my underwear (sometimes less on Tuesdays). Who knew it would get this big (the blog, that is).

In any event, just wanted to say thanks to everyone for reading (yes, even the Buckeyes. Okay, just the cool ones one).

Woohoo! Congrats! Scott had a wonderful way to compare it (with Stadium attendance). You guys do bring a smile and chuckle daily for me. I would get more out of the site though if you posted half naked male pics.....but then......I am a minority :o)

I don't mind the ads on the side like you had for a while. You guys deserved to get a little on the side for the troubles you go through in bringing us a pretty damn funny blog. Seriously- thanks for all you do.

Yost/Benny,this is a great blog and my number one source for news about college football, B10, and skanky looking girls (haven't seen enough of those lately, hint, hint). Even when i don't agree with what you post (pretty often, since we're in different camps), i respect the fact that you can make the posts interesting and funny. The good UM education is definitely showing.

ok dude: this thread was about these guys having a popular blog. You turn it into a thread about obsession (without even complementing them on their achievement). The other day, on the "Wiscy Chippendale" thread you were ranting about "the whole b10 ... obsessed with UM".

Me thinks you project your feelings onto others. So, maybe before you diagnose the whole Buckeye nation with OCD, doc, maybe you should go get checked out. Just for shits and giggles.

however, i've been to a lot of tail gates at both places. there's a big difference in focus.

last week i took the kids down to campus to attend the tosu-nu game (parked @ CAS and saw the crash landed banner plane in the front lawn, which was cool). walking amongst a bunch of the tailgaters in the fawcett/blackwell/rv lots. ran across dozens, literally, of "f- michigan" shirts & signs, random screams/shouts of "f- michigan" (or a reasonable facsimile), and one particularly sad group who had interrupted their corn hole game to take turns standing on a michigan flag they had thrown on the ground, to have their pics taken on the flag. that and the vendors selling "f- michigan" shirts, signs, etc., are a regular staple of tosu home games, even when play NU.

now, that's not a scientific count, but i'll wager that anyone walking around the michigan - psu tailgates didn't see any(or very little) anti tosu "stuff" displayed amongst the home crowd, come across people randomly, just for the fun of it, yelling "f- tosu" to the crowd in general, or folks posing on thrown down tosu banners for the purpose of picture taking. maybe a few bumper stickers, etc., that are attached to the a car or table permanently, but nothing anyone brought that day for the intent of displaying their dislike of tosu. face it- we were playing psu.

the most you see (outside the week of the tosu game, generally) are a few tee shirts or tee shirt vendors displaying anti tosu slogans (which are admittedly fashionable for any occassion).

this blog displays ante tosu material when it comes up. spurrier calls switzer a liar, it gets a post. same for notorious arrests, etc. if there seem to be a lot of posts about tosu, it's because there are a lot of arrests, not some odd focus.

on the other hand, to a michigan fan at least, tosu tailgaters setting up their anti michigan "stuff" for the NU game? well, that seems a little odd. last week we may have had our anti psu stuff out, any of which may have been of questionable taste, but you don't see much of the tosu stuff (tasteful or not) until late november.

proof of OCD for the entire buckeye nation? no. basis for a reasonable assumption that tosu fans have a wierd fascination w/ us? well, you're the one on the michigan blog telling us about tosu, not the other way around. you must be able to see how we could misunderstand.

OSU fans are hilarious. I love how they say they are not obsessed with UM, or that the obsession goes both ways. When a fan base makes a song (We don't give a damn about the whole state of Michigan), then you have problems. It's pathetic actually, simply pathetic.

"if there seem to be a lot of posts about tosu, it's because there are a lot of arrests, not some odd focus."

this blog has been here for almost two years - we've had two arrests in two years.....

it's my belief that many people from ohio, especially from cleveland, are focused more on the teams they hate than the teams they like. maybe it's because we grew up with the tribe sucking, the cavs sucking, the mistake on the lake, etc. Cleveland fans HATE michigan (except the confused ones like Da Braylon), HATE the Ravens, HATE the Steelers, etc etc etc. Maybe we're just more passionate about it than fans of these other teams - who knows. But it's something I've defintely noticed.

Returned the favor that morgan's raider's bestowed upon us. march south, burn it to the coast. us from Fairfield county, more specifically lancaster, OH, must be careful when traveling in the south. this is also the same Sherman that Tecumseh, michigan is named after, however we know it is pronounced teh-come-suh, not teh-come-see like those of the north.

None the less, AMAZING blog, personally started when googling "how to piss off a buckeye fan"when paired with MGOBLOG, any michigan fan needs not to visit any other sites! keep up the good work and looking forward to ultimate sellout and a facebook account

here's where you're short changing the authors of this fine blog, i'm not here b/c i'm obsessed with UM, i'm here b/c i like the material.

And for the record, i didn't bring up OSU obsession topic, i was merely responding to an off topic comment about OSU. My original comment did nothing but praise Benny/Yost for the tremendous work in making me a lot less bored at work (trust me it's a challenge).

By some of your guys logic i'm obsessed with UF, b/c i post on EDSBS. Oh, yeah, and the reason you haven't been to any OSU blogs is b/c there aren't any that are as impressive as this one (i'm not bashing my own kind, i'm merely stating i haven't found it)

wingrg,hard not to concede to so gracious of an admission. allow me to apologize for questioning your personal motives (if not the content of your posts).

srudoff,you have a point w/ the cleveland observations- most browns fans hate the steelers more than they love the browns. however, i think the "mania" around the bucks sort of ebbs as you distance yourself from columbus. there are strident tosu fans throughout the state, but tosu doesn't overwhelm cleveland/cinci/dayton et al the way it does columbus. the lack of other diversion leaves columbus (and its media) too focused on one team. my tosu friends from other cities, even while loving tosu, find the non stop all tosu/all the time mind numbing.

and as to the "general" question?

grant, lee, and sherman all three had tanks named after them. and to think my mom said all those years building models would never be useful?

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